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Originally Posted by 420
I was trying to say the homeless can get other help besides the $29 for food.
I assume you would get extra money for each child you had. So having less children to be covered would mean more money for others. I have heard of people taking advantage of the system. Claiming their spouse lives somewhere else, not reporting cash income and stuff like that. I don't know anything about the gaming the system gene or having a bunch of kids just to get free money though.
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my experience relating with people on food stamps/ebt is it's very difficult for them to break out of the cycle. i don't disagree that there are people places and things in place to help people get out of that cycle, nevertheless, based on what i've witnessed, people in that group struggle to get those opportunities. regardless of what the reason for the struggle is, booze, drugs, depression, hard times, bad luck, lazy, LAZY. that lack of motivation is a common denominator, again, regardless of the sitch, bad luck, dope fiend, hard times, alcohol, mental issues, there's always an element of lazy in there, in my experience.
not pointing my finger at lazy people, i think we'd accomplish more by looking at ways to motivate people to change their situation. to me, trying to address the problems from this way is better and more realistic that simply saying we need to sterilize certain people/not allow them to have children.